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| 1 |  | Martin Carstens: Senior reporter Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, Discovery Invest and currently, Memeburn.... more Martin Carstens: Senior reporter's posts have been read 71105 times |
| 2 |  | Stuart Thomas: Senior reporter Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who isn't afraid of the sun. An honors in English at the same institution failed to curb this. An MA in South African Literature, only ... more Stuart Thomas: Senior reporter's posts have been read 11860 times |
| 3 |  | Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed. A fiery tweeter and digital native, Mich Atagana has been hanging around the internet since she was eleven, back in the days of Netscape. Later on, her interest lead to her graduating with a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, and her position as Managing Editor at Burn Media. She was named ... more Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.'s posts have been read 11630 times |
| 4 |  | Keet Van Zyl Keet is a dynamic investment expert with extensive growth equity experience. He worked at industry-leading companies such as Procter & Gamble, Investec Bank and HBD Venture Capital. He co-founded KnifeCap to continue building the high-growth investment space in South Africa as well as AngelHub ... more Keet Van Zyl's posts have been read 11180 times |
| 5 |  | Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every now and again.... more Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter's posts have been read 8501 times |
| 6 |  | Jess Green: @jessello Jess Green is a serial entrepreneur, previously exiting UbuntuDeal.co.za to Tiger Global LLC through bidorbuy, and now founding Perk, a mobile retail engagement app. Jess loves the tech scene, and serves as Investor Relations on the SiliconCape Exco.... more Jess Green: @jessello's posts have been read 7170 times |
| 7 |  | Steven Norris: Staff reporter Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Claremont, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an SEO copywriter, learning the ropes the hard way before utterly mastering them. H... more Steven Norris: Staff reporter's posts have been read 3940 times |
| 8 |  | Wikus Engelbrecht Wikus Engelbrecht is a writer, journalist and digital poet at GraphicMail, an international email and mobile marketing service provider. His professional career in language and media has spanned the film, print advertising, magazine publishing, food theater and online content industries since 2003.... more Wikus Engelbrecht's posts have been read 3220 times |
| 9 |  | Graeme Lipschitz: Columnist Graeme Lipschitz is a Business Development manager at Clicks2Customers.com. He has previously worked for Google UK and Google South Africa as a lead account strategist, growing accounts in the Travel, Finance and Retail sectors.... more Graeme Lipschitz: Columnist's posts have been read 2895 times |
| 10 |  | Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist and the Founder and Publisher of Silicon Valley watcher, which is an online news site reporting on the business of Silicon Valley and the culture of disruption.... more Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley's posts have been read 2520 times |
| 11 |  | Sam Beckbessinger Sam likes anything she can take apart and put back together again. This makes her a big fan of Linux and rusty old cars. She is a Digital Planner at Quirk, which is her dream job because it allows her to obsess about the internet, work with some fabulous clients on creative marketing strategies and ... more Sam Beckbessinger's posts have been read 2230 times |
| 12 |  | Catherine Murray: Columnist Catherine is currently the Operations Manager at Creative Spark Interactive in Cape Town, where she is attempting to whip everyone into shape at breakneck speed. Prior to this she was Head of Online at Atalink Ltd, a specialist publishing company based in Central London for 5 years, where she manage... more Catherine Murray: Columnist's posts have been read 1430 times |
| 13 |  | Megan Bernstein Megan has a love and passion for great brands and extraordinary advertising. She is a true Generation Y baby. Immersed in all forms of new age marketing finding it an invaluable tool. Social media strategist for DigitLab by day, blogger for under5foot and Meme... more Megan Bernstein's posts have been read 1380 times |
| 14 |  | Erik Hersman: In Kenya I grew up in Kenya and Sudan. I’m one of those guys who’s much more “at home” in Africa, and I currently live in Kenya. I’m happily married and have 3 beautiful little girls that keep me on my toes. I write two main blogs: White African is my personal blog where I write about high-tech mob... more Erik Hersman: In Kenya's posts have been read 1360 times |
| 15 |  | Talita Calitz Talita was born and raised in Pretoria. She completed her BA Journalism degree at the University of Pretoria. Her main subjects were Journalism, Visual Studies and Communication. She is planning to further my studies in Marketing and Visual Culture. She has travelled to and lived in Tokyo, Mainland ... more Talita Calitz's posts have been read 1120 times |
| 16 |  | Rowan Puttergill: Columnist Rowan Puttergill is a technology evangelist and software engineer with a long career working in enterprise environments. He brings with him the experience of being the Technical Editor at SA Computer magazine, and a career history as a technical author. He is a huge advocate of open-source technolog... more Rowan Puttergill: Columnist's posts have been read 1100 times |
| 17 |  | Vincent Maher Vince is the CTO and co-founder of Motribe , a mobile community platform. Previously he was the portfolio manager for social media and the commercial manager for mobile advertising at Vodacom, the strategist at the Mail &Guardian Online and creator of Amatomu.c... more Vincent Maher's posts have been read 1030 times |
| 18 |  | Tac Anderson From 2001 - 2004 Tac owned a skateboard shop in Las Vegas. From 2005 - 12 Tac has been a partner at a digital marketing agency, a Social Media Strategic lead at HP, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at an early stage VC company, and a VP of Digital Strategies for Waggener Edstrom. Tac is currently the H... more Tac Anderson's posts have been read 1020 times |
| 19 |  | Mike Sharman Mike Sharman is the owner of multi-award winning agency Retroviral Digital Communications, an online communications consultancy that advises brands how to communicate with their target markets online, and executes strategies, while supporting their business objectives. Clients have included Mille... more Mike Sharman's posts have been read 970 times |
| 20 |  | Dave Blakey Dave Blakey is the founder of Snapt, a South African company that develops powerful user interface tools in order to effectively deliver open source software solutions for corporate customers. Blakey has a strong entrepreneurial background, having previously launched and developed the hugely succ... more Dave Blakey's posts have been read 880 times |
| 21 |  | Mark Kaigwa Mark Kaigwa is a Creative Director and Marketing Consultant born and based in Nairobi. Mark co-wrote the award-winning Warner Bros. videogame 'Pamoja Mtaani’ (Together in the ‘Hood) their groundbreaking first African videogame project as well as 5 Animated short films for Warner Bros. Animation.... more Mark Kaigwa's posts have been read 730 times |
| 22 |  | Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist Joseph C Lawrence has had lots of thoughts for a while now about the way in which evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us improve the way we experience the web. Understanding the way our minds work and process information can give us amazing insights about web design, web marketing, and we... more Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist's posts have been read 720 times |
| 23 |  | Shawn Graaff From the depths of classics libraries and American academia - Shawn Graaff is a South African based Digital Strategist that works in Digital Management, Information Architecture, Social Media and Search Marketing with a special interest in Mobile for Africa and a self-admitted details fanatic. At Mi... more Shawn Graaff's posts have been read 550 times |
| 24 |  | Nicholas Haralambous Nic a mobile entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Motribe, a mobile platform for publishing on the web. He has previously worked at Vodacom in the social media division launching a mobile alternative reality game, Legends of Echo as well as location based social network, The Grid. He has also ... more Nicholas Haralambous's posts have been read 530 times |
| 25 |  | Loy Okezie Loy Okezie is a digital marketing strategist and founder of Startups Nigeria, the first online technology startup community in Nigeria. He has consulted for several small and mid-size companies and helped start-up CareersNigeria.com, one of the leading job portals in Nigeria in 2007. He writes a col... more Loy Okezie's posts have been read 480 times |
| 26 |  | Lauren Granger: Staff reporter While studying towards her Bachelor of Journalism degree at Rhodes University, Lauren realised that she was fascinated by everything digital. This, coupled with the fact that she was more interested in creeping Mashable and Twitter than she was in picking up one of those printed things called 'newsp... more Lauren Granger: Staff reporter's posts have been read 440 times |
| 27 |  | Basheera Khan Basheera Khan is a user experience designer with an interest in information architecture, interaction design and content strategy across multiple platforms. A former journalist, Bash has written for ITWeb and Brainstorm in South Africa and TechCrunch Europe and the Telegraph in the UK. These d... more Basheera Khan's posts have been read 430 times |
| 28 |  | Alexandra Fraser Alexandra Fraser joined Invenfin, an early-stage venture capital firm wholly owned by Remgro in 2009, after completing her Masters in International Business and Emerging Markets (cum laude), at the University of Edinburgh’s Business School. Her degree focused on finance and technology manageme... more Alexandra Fraser's posts have been read 400 times |
| 29 |  | Craig Raw Craig is the founding CTO of Quirk, the digital agency. A programmer since the age of six, Craig believes strongly in using technology to educate, create jobs and improve lives. As such, he's created numerous pieces of software over the years, including the online reputation management tool BrandsEy... more Craig Raw's posts have been read 380 times |
| 30 |  | Yoav Tchelet Yoav Tchelet heads up Digital for JWT in South Africa. He has spent the better part of the last 12 years in various digital roles and projects including founding a digital agency, working with some of the largest brands in SA and abroad and has been involved in a number of internet startups locally.... more Yoav Tchelet's posts have been read 370 times |
| 31 |  | Georgia Christian Georgia Christian is a digital marketing specialist at web development, design and digital marketing company Lima Bean. You can follow them on Twitter @limabeansa.... more Georgia Christian's posts have been read 350 times |
| 32 |  | Matthew Stone: Columnist Matthew Stone is a smart guy in Research and Analysis at The Rubiks Room (TRR). Matt supplies sick beats and writes a lot when he’s not exploring the intimate regions of the Internet and its citizens. You can hire him to be a CPR training model.... more Matthew Stone: Columnist's posts have been read 310 times |
| 33 |  | Jonathan Houston Jonathan Houston is passionate about digital marketing and digital strategy. During the day, Jonathan fulfills the role of Lead Digital Marketer for Deloitte Consulting’s Technology division where his primary focus is to ensure the continued development of the division’s online profile. Jonathan... more Jonathan Houston's posts have been read 280 times |
| 34 |  | Jon Jacobson Jon Jacobson is an IT entrepreneur. His area of focus is multi-channel commerce. He loves making things happen whether it’s thinking up and taking new ideas to the market , in the boxing ring, surfing or playing his old Gibson Epiphone guitar. Jon lives in Noordhoek at the foot of Chapmans Peak.... more Jon Jacobson's posts have been read 280 times |
| 35 |  | Matthew Buckland: Publisher Matthew Buckland is a web guy who has over the years worked in a programming, editorial and business capacity within the online media environment. He now dedicates his life and soul to Creative Spark and Memeburn.com. He was previously General Manager of ... more Matthew Buckland: Publisher's posts have been read 220 times |
| 36 |  | Tony Seifart Tony Seifart is in love with Online Marketing. And he’ll share that passion with just about anyone who is willing to listen. Tony runs seminars and workshops throughout South Africa helping SMME’s fully utilize the Internet in marketing their business, developing online strategies and using t... more Tony Seifart's posts have been read 190 times |
| 37 |  | Craig Bruton Originally studying Information Technology, Craig developed an interest in design and online media, and moved from business software programming into the more innovative world of online and digital media. Craig opened Refresh Creative Media in 2001 with Graham Shillington, with the objective of crea... more Craig Bruton's posts have been read 180 times |
| 38 |  | Colin Daniels Colin is currently Head of Digital at the Trader Media Group (South Africa), part of Europe’s largest specialist multimedia publishing group jointly-owned by the Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners. He is responsible for managing a commercial department, which includes both sales and technical ... more Colin Daniels's posts have been read 160 times |
| 39 |  | Catherine Parker Catherine Parker is a social media and search consultant and web copywriter. Via her first love, copywriting, she fell into the search engine marketing industry, working at Quirk eMarketing in Cape Town, followed by Greenlight Marketing in London, and then iProspect in San Francisco. Most recently, ... more Catherine Parker's posts have been read 120 times |
| 40 |  | Eric Edelstein Eric Edelstein is a Cape Town Internet Entrepreneur & Angel Investor. His current venture is evly.com, a Social Network platform focused on Crowdsourcing. evly helps companies and other organisations to interact, involve and engage their customers and community with Crowdsourcing activities such... more Eric Edelstein's posts have been read 110 times |
| 41 |  | Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg ... more Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent's posts have been read 100 times |
| 42 |  | Paul Armstrong Paul Armstrong is Head of Social for Mindshare. Recently returning from a seven year stint in Los Angeles where he worked in-house at MySpace (Corporate Communications) he has created digital strategies and activations for Activision, Sony, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks and Yahoo! In his spare time... more Paul Armstrong's posts have been read 100 times |
| 43 |  | Justin Spratt Justin is an Australian, living in South Africa for the last five years. Speaker and writer on issues where technology and economics intersect. General Manager of VoIP Mobile & Wi-Fi HotSpot businesses at Internet Solutions. Co-founder ISLabs. Co-founder of GeekRetreat. Sit on steering committee... more Justin Spratt's posts have been read 90 times |
| 44 |  | Donald Gips Before being asked to be President Obama’s personal representative to South Africa, Ambassador Donald Gips served as Assistant to the President. He was a leader on the Presidential Transition Team and then served in the White House, where he ran the office of Presidential Personnel, overseeing the... more Donald Gips's posts have been read 90 times |
| 45 |  | Hilton Tarrant: Columnist Hilton Tarrant is production editor at Moneyweb. His main focus is project management for the listed company’s local and international websites, and contributes to their strategic direction. From time-to-time, he also fills in for Alec Hogg on the SAfm Market Update with Moneyweb radio programme. ... more Hilton Tarrant: Columnist's posts have been read 90 times |
| 46 |  | Anthony Farr Anthony's belief in the power of education and his zeal for the upliftment of others inspires him in his CEO responsibilities to drive the mandate of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and deliver on its objectives. Anthony, a co-founder of the Starfish Greathearts Foundation, has a Bachelor of Busines... more Anthony Farr's posts have been read 80 times |
| 47 |  | Niel Bekker: In New York Niel studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is the social products editor at The Huffington Post in New York. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour. His perfect weekend is made of Arsenal, basil pesto and meme humour.... more Niel Bekker: In New York's posts have been read 80 times |
| 48 |  | Jonathan Inngs Jonathan Inggs, but to most people simply, Jinggs- Brand Manager at the Grand Daddy Hotel. Occasional hazard and all round commentator on all things relevent or not, Jinggs occupies the position of Brand Manager at the iconic Grand Daddy Hotel- some say all he does all day is sit on Facebook and Twi... more Jonathan Inngs's posts have been read 80 times |
| 49 |  | Sheraan Amod Sheraan is the 24-year-old Co-Founder of Personera.com, a global personalised publishing platform based on Facebook. In 2009 Personera won the FNB Enablis Business Launchpad competition, joined IS Labs, acquired venture investment and was featured by TechCrunch and Xerox. He is also the Curator of S... more Sheraan Amod's posts have been read 60 times |
| 50 |  | Andrew Rens Andrew Rens is originally from the rough mining town of Johannesburg. More recently he has lived in the start up friendly cities of San Francisco and Cape Town. A proponent and practitioner of open lawyering; open licenses, open standards and open networks, he is... more Andrew Rens's posts have been read 60 times |
| 51 |  | Brett Commaille Brett is the former CEO of Invenfin Venture Capital, an early or seed stage venture capital fund, owned by Remgro Ltd, and focused on differentiated intellectual property with global potential. Brett now runs MyTrueSpark -- a consultancy. As a CA, Brett has worked in audit, merchant banking and cons... more Brett Commaille's posts have been read 60 times |
| 52 |  | Johann van Tonder Johann van Tonder is an internet strategist at Naspers head office in Cape Town, has an MBA with a thesis on internet strategy and is currently working on his doctorate. He has a background in photojournalism and multimedia production and was one of the first bloggers in South Africa, in a raw HTML ... more Johann van Tonder's posts have been read 60 times |
| 53 |  | Joy-Mari Cloete Blame Joy-Mari Cloete for those guffaws you hear from Shake Interactive’s offices. This digital immigrant has dreamt of becoming an SEO copywriter since her first term in primary school. She used to blog at www.joy-mari.com but then she contracted Writer’s Block, a company that specialises in p... more Joy-Mari Cloete's posts have been read 60 times |
| 54 |  | Shana Kay Shana Kay has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Information Systems and has a passion for all things technology-enabled. She has been in the ICT industry for 15 years and has co-founded two businesses and solo-founded the third. She is fuelled by creating businesses and loves to share her ... more Shana Kay's posts have been read 50 times |
| 55 |  | Michael Ogembo Kachienga Professor Michael Ogembo Kachienga is an Electrical Engineer, Biomedical Engineering Scientist, Consulting Technological Entrepreneur and Professor of Technological Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Technology Management.... more Michael Ogembo Kachienga's posts have been read 40 times |
| 56 |  | Eran Eyal Eran Eyal matriculated in 1992, continuing his studies at University of Natal and UNISA towards his B.A. until 1996, during which he worked for Insight Technologies (later to become Logical – the hardware provider arm of Datatech) in technical support and producing animations for industry shows. I... more Eran Eyal's posts have been read 30 times |
| 57 |  | Andy Higgins Andy Higgins is the co-founder and Managing Director of bidorbuy.co.za, South Africa's leading online marketplace. He is also on the board of directors at payfast.co.za, a company specialising in online payments for South Africa, jobs.co.za, an online jobs portal and jump.co.za, an online shopping c... more Andy Higgins's posts have been read 30 times |
| 58 |  | Matt Cohen Matthew Cohen is a web developer, WordPress enthusiast, avid musician, music lover and blogger. He enjoys coding WordPress plugins and themes, custom web-based applications and playing guitar to a good beat.... more Matt Cohen's posts have been read 30 times |
| 59 |  | Mark Slingsby Mark Slingsby is currently co-founder and Director of local Internet Service Provider RSAWEB. Mark has also co-founded other startups that are now part of the RAMP Group, these include WhiteWallWeb and Evenflow. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, Mark has worked for over nine y... more Mark Slingsby's posts have been read 30 times |
| 60 |  | Elaine Rumboll Elaine Rumboll possesses an eclectic range of skills, being a former performance artist, internationally published award-winning poet, blues singer and academic turned entrepreneur. Elaine was appointed Director of Executive Education, UCT Graduate School of Business in 2005. She is currently workin... more Elaine Rumboll's posts have been read 20 times |
| 61 |  | Steven Preston Steven Preston is Co-Founder and a Mobile Specialist at Cobi Interactive, the first South African technology company to offer custom software development for the full range of mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. After completing his BSc (Honours) in IT and Post Gradua... more Steven Preston's posts have been read 20 times |
| 62 |  | Gareth Knight Gareth Knight is a digital maven and open source evangelist. Educated as a zoologist, he is a veteran of two dot com crashes in London, one web 2.0 acquisition, and runs Technovated. Previously, Gareth served in London as Director of Product Management for MyHeritage.com, a global family genealogy ... more Gareth Knight's posts have been read 10 times |
| 63 |  | Rob Salkowitz Rob Salkowitz is a writer and futurist specialising in the social implications of new technology and the next-generation workforce. He is the author of three books: "Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship Are Changing the World from the Bottom Up (2010)", "Generation Blend: M... more Rob Salkowitz's posts have been read 10 times |
| 64 |  | Sue Rutherford Sue Rutherford is the founder, director and inspiration behind The Forge Web Creations, a successful web development company based in Cape Town, South Africa.... more Sue Rutherford's posts have been read 0 times |
| 65 |  | Conrad Owens Conrad Owens is a Digital Media Analyst based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has many years experience in mainstream and digital media and has worked extensively in television, design and on the Internet. Some of his qualifications include a BSc degree, a Diploma in IS Project Management and Microso... more Conrad Owens's posts have been read -10 times |
| 66 |  | Debré Barrett Debré Barrett is a User Experience Consultant at Flow Interactive. She advises clients on usability, user-centred design and communication strategy. She has a journalism degree from Rhodes, and spent many years as an online news journalist in South Africa and the UK. Before returning to SA in 2007,... more Debré Barrett's posts have been read -40 times |
